

Is Culture a Strategy?
The definitions of strategy and culture in the soon-to-come A Spy’s Guide to Strategy: First, strategy: Big decisions about big objectives. Traditionally, strategic decisions are made by big leaders (like generals, where the root word “strategos” comes from). Second, culture: “The rules of the game which provide the informal constraints on human interactions.” That’s from Nobel Prize-winning economic historian Douglass North. North thought culture was important. So important